Latitude and Longitude

[Toby Zabinski <zabinski@PANTHEON.YALE.EDU>]

Many of you asked for a hit on the latitude and longitude sites so here it
is. I haven't checked all of these yet but they are a wonderful resource
to have.

Thanks again for all the help!!  Toby


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     Toby Zabinski
     Media Specialist                        zabinski@pantheon.yale.edu
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This site will give the distance between 2 locations.

http://www.indo.com/distance/

It also gives the latitude and longitude for each place in the answer.

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 Try the USGS site:
http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html

(People often use this to find county names when doing genealogy)

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This server gives data for a location.
http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo

This is a more up to date site:
http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html

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Try this site

http://www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist

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this site was providing it earlier, but seems to be down temporarily. I
just tried it, but it may be ok later today:

http://lib-www.ucr.edu/search/ucr_mapssearch.html

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 http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo

You just have to enter the city & state.

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Not sure if this is what you mean, but look at:

http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl



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For Toby and other interested parties:

Here are a couple of sites that give latitude and longitude (among other
information).
Give them a try!

 http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
This calculator will let you enter city names, and will give you latitude and
longitude

 http://imap.chesapeake.net/cgi-bin/webmapper
This will let you find mapping coordinates either by clicking on a map, or by
entering the name of a city or a zip code
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Try also

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer


This is a much more elegant method than hacking with the
Microsoft server; it's USA only,  and still gives you only
decimal degrees.  If you have a GPS unit, of course, it'll
easily convert.


Lotsa similar/related links at

http://www.cnde.iastate.edu/gps.html

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as you requested:

http://www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist

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Hi, I'm a member of the LM_NET tech team, and spend a lot of time on
the technical newsgroups ... this question popped there recently, and
I'll post a few of the responses, but I've not checked them out
myself.

(the last I know well, but you may be overwhelmed)

For the USA, check out the Getty Information Institute:

http://www.ahip.getty.edu/tgn_browser/

Besides giving you the location, they often include additional
information which you may find useful.


I know you didn't ask for this but for the world at large (exclusive
of the USA) check out the gov. agency NIMA:

http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html

1. Scroll down and click on the "Access GEOnet" button 2. Scroll down
to "Query Criteria" and type in name (note: wildcards allowed) 3.
Drop down to "Country" and make your choice and then Submit Query.

This is a great site because it has a huge data base of the location
of "features" (if you aren't careful you could end up with over
100,000 hits on a single inquiry). So, besides cities, you can find
the location water wells, lakes, anchorages, battlefields, tunnels,
causeways, abandoned railroad stations, etc. - you name it (look
under "Feature Designation" to get an idea of the large list of
features that may be searched for. There is also a link to page that
will give you the meaning of all the feature codes that come up in
your search result). Even for a city, you often get a couple of
results for that city due to the different features that are possible
under "city" listings (administrative centers as opposed to population
centers). So don't foget that link to the cross-reference page
mentioned earlier. You may need it.



If you know the addresses of those "famous buildings" try Mapblast:

http://www.mapblast.com/mapblast/start.hm


... and from another ...


(Assuming that you're looking for US locations) The most
comprehensive database for finding coordinates has to be the USGS
website: mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html You can lookup
individual locations or download their state databases.

... and a third, a VERY INTERESTING site ...


Look under GEOGRAPHY on our website below.  There is also a "LIST OF
WAYPOINT LISTS" there as well. Joe


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Most pages that allow you to make maps will show you the Lat/Long of the
place you are mapping. You may have to change the settings or customize the
maps. Http://www.mapsonus.com is one set the general options to show lat/long.

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Toby,
I think these sites will do what you are looking for:

US Geographic Names Information System
http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/

How Far is it?
http://www.indo.com/distance/

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